Great morning yesterday. Slightly cool, but nothing a base and light arm 'warmers' (more like sun sleeves, these) didnt sort for the first 15km. Home after 40km and a little sitting at North Head, finally a nice day out again. I've been having too many bad days out of late!

tez001 wrote:The weather this weeks looks to be pretty good. I guess in time, we will be posting up how hot it is, and cant wait for summer to be over

Hang your head in shame Sir!

Over in France recently and was loving the balmy 29ºC temperatures in the afternoon. Actually even warmer down in Nice. A bit cool in the mornings up in the mountains at higher altitudes, but it soon warmed up.

Then I get back to Sydney and what do I get, rain, cold (to go along with the cold I got somewhere between Nice, Dubai and Sydney), oh and bloody magpies! I thought I was timing things perfectly, you lot get hammered by the magpies while I enjoy riding overseas in peace.

I did the 105 km Spring Cycle today. The turn out was ok, but likely the numbers were down on previous years. The weather was ok for the first half but then when we were out at Western Sydney Parklands it pissed down. Lots of standing water on the paths. Had to take it slow. Well done to all who rode today.

AndrewCowley wrote:I did the 105 km Spring Cycle today. The turn out was ok, but likely the numbers were down on previous years. The weather was ok for the first half but then when we were out at Western Sydney Parklands it pissed down. Lots of standing water on the paths. Had to take it slow. Well done to all who rode today.

You weren't the guy in the mankini? (Yes, some guy was riding in nothing else but that). Don't know what he was trying to prove. He would not have been grinning if he'd gone down on a slippery corner.

I'm also not sure why a big huge Police motorbike was leading them through along a small cycleway, that's a bit dangerous especially with local residents out walking their dogs.

At least it eased up a bit later on in the morning, it even warmed up.

Nope not me in the mankini. Yeah I wondered about the police motorcycle too. Not sure if it was with the lead group through the Parklands loop since I had my puncture just before it. But yeah those paths aren’t really designed for a motorcycle.

AndrewCowley wrote:Nope not me in the mankini. Yeah I wondered about the police motorcycle too. Not sure if it was with the lead group through the Parklands loop since I had my puncture just before it. But yeah those paths aren’t really designed for a motorcycle.

I coincidentally happened to be riding at Parklands as the lead group went through and past me, I actually didn't know the event was coming through there, and was just riding along minding my own business. The rain was absolutely torrential. I didn't see the mankini, but I did see someone in the lead group riding past me with rubber thongs on his feet

I don't think the motorbikes were leading out the group as such. Just moving along from one road intersection to another to supervise traffic.

AndrewCowley wrote:Nope not me in the mankini. Yeah I wondered about the police motorcycle too. Not sure if it was with the lead group through the Parklands loop since I had my puncture just before it. But yeah those paths aren’t really designed for a motorcycle.

I coincidentally happened to be riding at Parklands as the lead group went through and past me, I actually didn't know the event was coming through there, and was just riding along minding my own business. The rain was absolutely torrential. I didn't see the mankini, but I did see someone in the lead group riding past me with rubber thongs on his feet

I don't think the motorbikes were leading out the group as such. Just moving along from one road intersection to another to supervise traffic.

The motorbike was riding along the canal cycleway. Not good. There are enough problems on there with trailbike riders without a Police one adding to them. And there were no signs warning of it.

don't envy you guys.i did the 18km river ride with wife and kids. the 10am start meant we avoided the worse of the weather.was good to see the big crowd at finishing line.

however, i did not enjoy the right turn at HILL ROAD to get to the stadium. there was no "right turn" green arrow so we had to wait for the break in south-bound traffic. this was a common intersection for all rides ending at Olympic Park so there was quite a big group waiting to turn right.

unlike the super friendly cops at Parramatta, the few who were present at the intersection just stood motionless.

SteveTheTiger wrote:I only rode the 50k, and was glad I did, as other than a brief shower or two in the city, the worst was some deep puddles and the drenching I got on the way go the train at 5.30 in the morning.

From some pics, the 105k route required detours along Prospect Creek at the underpasses as it was a metre under.

Yes that's true. We simply crossed at the lights and joined the pathway across the other side of the creek.

It's a ride that requires a lot of care in general, so adding torrential rain into the mix didn't really effect things much for me. You don't ride it anywhere near flat out even in the dry. I used my heavy clunker commuter road bike with all weather tyres instead of my lightweight weekend bike. That helped too.

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